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[Diversity and Inclusion Meeting on April 22, 2025.]
AND BELONGING COMMISSION.TUESDAY, APRIL 22ND AT ON IS 6 0 5.
AND SO WE'LL HAVE THE ROLL CALL.
AND AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE COMMISSIONER LEWIS DANINA AND SPOONS AS ABSENT.
UM, ARE THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS? UM, NOPE.
AND ITEM FOUR, GENERAL COMMENTS FROM CITY STAFF.
UM, I JUST WANTED TO GIVE A QUICK UPDATE.
THIS PAST WEEKEND I ATTENDED THE, UM, GREATER, UM, THE ACRONYM CORRECT, THE GREATER AUSTIN ASIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, UM, ASIAN MARKET KNIGHT, UM, WAS INVITED BY MARK DUBAL, WHO IS THEIR CEO AND A RELATIONSHIP THAT WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO BUILD, UM, OVER THE PAST YEAR.
UM, MADE A LOT OF FANTASTIC CONNECTIONS AND DEFINITELY, UM, SOME AVENUES, UM, FOR THE FUTURE FOR THE COMMISSION AS GROUPS START BREAKING OUT.
ONE OF, UH, KIND OF A SIDE BRANCH CONVERSATION THAT I HAD WAS WITH A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE AUSTIN L-G-B-T-Q CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
UM, AND THEY HAVE A PROGRAM THAT I JUST WANTED TO BRING TO THE COMMISSION'S ATTENTION.
UM, THAT'S SOMETHING TO MAYBE CONSIDER FOR FUTURE, BUT IT'S CALLED SMALL TOWN BIG PRIDE.
AND IT IS, IT IS RUN BY, UM, IT'S HEADQUARTERED IN AUSTIN, BUT THIS IS AN, UH, INITIATIVE THAT, UM, THAT THEY'RE FOCUSING IN ON MORE TOWNS WITHIN THE AUSTIN METRO AREA THAT'S SUPPORT, UM, THE LGBT PLUS OWNED BUSINESSES AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.
UM, IT'S A WHOLE MEMBERSHIP AND THERE'S THIS WHOLE GAMUT OF INFORMATION AND I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS APPROPRIATE TO SHARE WITH YOU GUYS AS YOU.
CONTINUE TO WORK ON YOUR FOCUS GROUPS AND I CAN SHARE THE LINKS AND INFORMATION AFTERWARD.
UM, AND I THINK THOSE ARE ALL THE POINTS I HAVE FOR NOW.
AND I DO HUMBLY REQUEST THAT WE CAN, WHEN IT'S APPROPRIATE, UM, MOVE ITEM SEVEN THREE.
DO WE HAVE TO VOTE ON THAT? YEAH.
WELL, I THINK ONCE YOU GET PAST, UM, ONCE, ONCE YOU, YOU GET THE OTHER BUSINESS, YOU CAN DO IT.
NOW, UM, COMMENTS, ITEM FIVE, GENERAL COMMENTS FROM CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES.
UH, WELL, IT'S, IT'S GOOD TO BE, UH, BACK IN YOUR MEETING AGAIN.
UM, TRYING TO MAKE IT REGULARLY HAD SOME HEALTH ISSUES THAT SLOWED ME DOWN HERE, AND HOPEFULLY I'LL BE BACK IN PERSON SOON.
AND, UH, THERE'S A GUEST WAITING TO JOIN.
I WOULD JUST SAY THAT THE, SORRY.
UM, I WOULD JUST SAY THAT ONE THING WE'RE CHECKING ON THE CITY COUNCIL IS WHAT STATE LEGISLATURE IS UP TO.
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT AFFECT CITIES IN GENERAL, BUT NONE THAT I'M AWARE OF RIGHT NOW THAT AFFECT THIS BOARD SPECIFICALLY.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE'LL SEE WHAT THEY COME UP WITH BY THE END OF THE SESSION.
BUT, UM, NOT ACTUALLY SEEING ANY, ANY SPECIFIC ACTIVITY THAT, UH, YOU GUYS NECESSARILY HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT RIGHT NOW.
UM, JUST KEEPING AN EYE OPEN FOR IT, SO.
UM, GENERAL COMMENTS FROM COMMISSION MEMBERS? WELL, I HAVE TO COMMENT ABOUT THE, THE, UH, WEBSITE, UM, WHERE I DIDN'T THINK THAT WE HAD ENOUGH EXPOSURE ON THE WEBSITE.
HOWEVER, I HAVE, IT'S BEEN INFORMED, UH, I'VE BEEN INFORMED THAT WE'RE STILL WORKING ON IT, SO MM-HMM
I HAVE TO LET THAT GO UNTIL I SEE MORE
I JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS.
UM, ONE IS, OH, OFTENTIMES WE WONDER IF YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING, OUR PLANS WORK.
I REACHED AT THE LAST CITY COUNCIL MEETING, I THINK ONE OF THE STAFF MEMBERS CAME UP TO ME AND SAID, THANK YOU FOR, UM, SPEAKING ABOUT AUTISM AND AUTISM NIGHT, BECAUSE HIS DAUGHTER SAID, OH, I HAD NO IDEA THAT ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS AUTISTIC.
SO THAT WAS, THAT MADE MY HEART FEEL GREAT,
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BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT THINK THAT'S A SMALL THING OR THEY SAY, OH, WELL YOU SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON THE ROADS AND WHATEVER.BUT HAVING SOMEONE'S CHILD SAY HOW THEY FELT INCLUDED AND BELONGING, YOU KNOW, AND BELONG, BELONG TO THE CITY OF OTTO WAS REALLY GREAT.
SO, AND THAT IS PART OF OUR COMMUNICATION PLAN THAT WE BRIEFLY, WHEN WE SPEAK OF PROCLAMATIONS IN THAT, THAT WE DO HAVE ITEMS OF EDUCATION AND, UM, INFORMATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IN THERE.
AND WE'RE GLAD TO HAVE DAN WITH US.
SO HE'S GONNA BE WITH US, WHICH WE'RE VERY HAPPY OF.
AND, UM, I, WE HAVE DISCUSSED IN THE PAST CONCERNS ABOUT DEI, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I LOOKED INTO AS I'M A MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, WE ACTUALLY HAVE AN OUTLINE FOR AN ASSESSMENT THAT YOU CAN DO TO SEE IF YOU ARE WITHIN THE LEGAL RIGHTS AND ALL OF THAT.
SO WE'RE ARE GOING TO DO THAT.
AND AS DAN, UM, SUGGESTED, WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT WE GO THROUGH THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION AND, UM, WE'LL ADDRESS THAT.
AND ALSO WE ARE GOING TO HAVE LEGAL TO REVIEW IT AS WELL.
SO, AND DAN WILL HELP US WITH THAT.
SO NOW THE NEXT, NOW THIS IS WHERE WE WILL VOTE
UM, ONE, ONE THING I WANNA SAY BEFORE WE START, WE VOTE ON THAT, IS THAT WITH OUR, WE ARE DOING GREAT ON OUR PLAN.
WE, I FEEL THIS IS LIKE PHASE THREE OF THE PLAN.
WE HAD, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF, WELL, I WOULD SAY EVEN RELAUNCHING REORGANIZATION, NEW MEMBERS, ALL OF THAT WOULD BE PHASE ONE.
WE ACTUALLY HAVE A, UM, STRATEGIC PLAN THAT MIRRORS THE CITY OF HUDDLES STRATEGIC PLAN.
NOW WE'RE GOING INTO PHASE THREE, WHICH IS IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN.
SO WE'LL DO THAT, UM, BEFORE I TURN IT OVER TO STAN, WE WOULD, WE WOULD, UM, THERE'S BEEN A MOTION TO MOVE ITEM SOME 0.3, UM, IS DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE INPUT FOR PARK AND RECREATION EVENT.
SO IF WE COULD VOTE ON THAT, IF, OR HAVE A MOTION.
I GUESS YOU HAVE TO HAVE A MOTION.
SO THE MOTION THAT I'M HEARING IS TO MOVE ITEM 7.3, UM, UH, SO BEFORE 7.1? YES.
A ANY DISCUSSION? YES, DID CONTINUE THE RECORDING.
I'VE BEEN WITH PARKS AND REC FOR ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF.
AND SO, UM, MAJORITY OF THE EVENTS THAT WE DO, I'VE BEEN THROUGH AT LEAST ONCE AT THIS POINT, EXCEPT FOR SOME NEW EVENTS COMING UP, BUT THAT DOES NOT.
SO, UM, BUT I APPRECIATE Y'ALL LETTING ME COME TONIGHT.
WE VALUE YOUR FEEDBACK AND WE NEED, WE NEED HELP, UH, WITH A COUPLE OF EVENTS THAT WE HAVE, UM, COMING UP IS OUR MOTHER SON EVENT, UM, LAST YEAR THAT, UH, WAS REBRANDED AS TOYS NIGHT OUT IN AN EFFORT TO BE, UM, INCLUSIVE.
I HOPE EVERYONE CAN HEAR ME FACE THIS WAY.
AND IN AN EFFORT TO, YOU KNOW, TO TRY TO BE AS INCLUSIVE AS POSSIBLE, LETTING EVERYONE, REGARDLESS OF YOUR FAMILY SITUATION, LIKE THEY COULD ATTEND AND ALL OF THAT.
AND WE TRIED TO RELAY THAT IN OUR MESSAGING.
UM, HOWEVER, WE DID FEEL THAT, UM, WE HAD A LOT OF NEGATIVE FEEDBACK AND A LOT OF CONFUSION.
PEOPLE JUST DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT IT WAS.
SO, UH, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, ASKING FOR YOUR INPUT ON AS OTHER WAYS THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO REBRAND THIS, UM, TO MAKE, MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ALSO, YOU KNOW, UH, COMING FORTH WITH THE SAME MESSAGE.
UM, BUT WE ALSO WANT IT TO BE CLEAR WHAT IT IS.
YOU KNOW, IT'S BASICALLY AN EVENT FOR, UH, YOUNG BOYS.
I THINK WE PUT THE AGE LIKE FOUR TO, YOU KNOW, 12, 14, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
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A, UM, SOME KIND OF A ROLE MODEL IN THEIR LIVES.YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT BE A MOTHER, AN AUNT, A FATHER, AN UNCLE, A GRANDMOTHER, WHATEVER, A SISTER.
BUT THAT'S WHAT THIS EVENT IS FOR.
UM, THIS EVENT IS APPROACHING PRETTY QUICKLY.
UM, IT IS, UH, MAY 17TH, AND WE HAVE NOT STARTED PROMOTING BECAUSE WE WANT TO GET, UM, SOME INPUT AND THEN WE'RE GONNA FACE THE SAME CHALLENGE WITH THE, UM, QUOTE UNQUOTE DADDY DAUGHTER EVENT.
'CAUSE LAST YEAR WE WENT TO GIRLS NIGHT OUT, SAME KIND OF THING, ALTHOUGH IT DIDN'T FACE QUITE AS MUCH MM-HMM
UM, WE STILL HAD A, A REAL POSITIVE, UH, TURNOUT THERE, BUT STILL, LIKE, IT'S STILL KIND OF THE SAME GRAY AREA THAT SEEMS LIKE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT THAN YOUR RIGHT.
SO ONE IS A MUCH MORE GLOBAL AND THE OTHER ONE IS MORE SPECIFIC TO ONE FAMILY MEMBER AND RIGHT.
COULD YOU POSSIBLY BE SPECIFIC ABOUT SOME OF THE
NATURE OF THOSE AND I WILL DO MY BEST.
SO, UM, BASICALLY THE COMPLAINTS WERE, WELL, WHAT IS THIS? LIKE, IS IT STILL MOTHER SON? WHAT? WHAT? NO, I DON'T, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS.
I'M JUST GIVING YOU LIKE, WERE, WERE, WERE THEY GENDER RELATED COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE GENDER THINGS? YEAH.
LIKE, LIKE I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY YOU HAD TO CHANGE IT.
UM, IS IT NOT FOR MOTHERS AND SONS ANYMORE? WHAT WAS IT ORIGINALLY AND WHAT DID YOU CHANGE IT TO? IT IT WAS ORIGINALLY, UM, BEFORE I GOT HERE.
BECAUSE WHEN I GOT HERE, IT HAD GONE TO, UH, GIRLS, NOT OUT, OUT BOYS', NIGHT OUT, SORRY.
SO, UH, BEFORE THAT IT WAS JUST CALLED THE MOTHER, SON OF
IT SEEMS LIKE IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.
ONE OF THEM WOULD BE GLOBAL LIKE THAT.
AND THE OTHER ONE WOULD BE VERY SPECIFIC.
LIKE ANY DAUGHTER IS VERY SPECIFIC DAD AND, AND, AND THE DAUGHTER.
BUT THIS IS LIKE ANY RELATIVE AND A SON.
WELL, IT WAS, IT WAS CALLED MOTHER SON PRIOR TO, BUT WHY DID YOU CHANGE IT THEN? UM, LAST, I BELIEVE IT WAS CHANGED, UH, BECAUSE WE WANTED IT TO, TO SOUND MORE INCLUSIVE FOR, SO, 'CAUSE WE ALL KNOW THERE'S PLENTY OF, THERE'S PLENTY OF FAMILIES OUT THERE THAT ARE NOT TRADITIONAL MM-HMM
SO YOU HAVE FAMILIES THAT, UH, A SON MAY NOT NECESSARILY LIVE WITH A MOTHER OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
BUT THEN YOU SHOULD BE CHANGING DADDY DAUGHTER.
SO WHAT ARE YOUR SUGGESTIONS THEN? I THINK YOU HAD LISTED THREE SUGGESTIONS.
CHRISTINE, YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THAT? I DO.
AND I ALSO JUST WANNA SHARE REALLY QUICKLY THAT STAN, UM, IN THE CHAT SHARED BOY WITH FAVORITE FEMALE ADULT GIRL WITH FAVORITE MALE ADULT MM-HMM
AND THEN WHAT WAS SHARED, UM, VIA, UH, JEFF OKAY.
WAS THE, THE THREE OPTIONS RETURN TO DADDY, DAUGHTER, DADDY AND DAUGHTER DANCE, AND MOTHER AND SON OPTION TWO, RETAIN GIRLS NIGHT OUT AND BOYS NIGHT OUT, OR OPTION THREE, DEVELOP NEW INCLUSIVE NAMES LIKE LITTLE GIRLS BALL OR SARI REQUEST.
AND THOSE ARE THE CURRENT OPTIONS.
BUT I'M SURE Y'ALL WILL BE OPEN TO OTHER.
I MEAN, THE THEME FOR THIS YEAR'S EVENT ON MAY 17TH IS A SAFARI.
SO LIKE, WE'RE HAVING A PET, EXOTIC PETTING ZOOS COMING IN, WE'RE DOING, UM, FUN THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO, I WAS GONNA SAY, ONE OF THE, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS MISSING FROM THAT MESSAGE IS THE PURPOSE.
LIKE, WE MAY KNOW, WE MAY ASSUME THAT THE PUBLIC KNOWS WHAT THE PURPOSE OF IT IS MM-HMM
BUT IF YOU, UM, WITHOUT ASSUMING RIGHT.
WHAT IS THE DEPARTMENT'S PURPOSE OF HAVING THESE TYPE OF EVENTS? OKAY.
SO I BELIEVE THAT IN, LIKE, IN THE DESCRIPTION THAT WE PULL, THAT WE, THAT WE PUT OUT IN OUR MESSAGING IS THAT IT'S IN, IT'S INTENDED TO BE AN EVENING, UH, FOR YOUNG BOYS TO, UH, CREATE MEMORIES WITH A LOVED ONE.
UM, I WISH I HAD MY LAUGH OFF.
I'M SORRY, I DON'T, OR I PULL UP WHILE WE DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A RELATIVE.
LIKE, YOU COULD COME WITH ANY GUARDIAN, LIKE NO.
WITH SCHOOL, WE SAY SURE, SURE.
SO IF I'M HEARING YOU CORRECTLY, THE PURPOSE OF THESE EVENTS IS TO ENCOURAGE, UM, YOUTH AND JUVENILE AGE CHILDREN OR CITIZENS OF HOW TO, RESIDENTS OF PATO TO ENJOY A SAFE EVENING FUND OUT WITH A TRUSTED GUARDIAN.
AND CAN'T THINK OF A NAME, AND I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY I CAN'T THINK OF A NAME.
BUT I THINK YOU'RE ONTO SOMETHING WITH, OR WHOEVER'S MADE THE SUGGESTION OF KEEPING THE NAME IN LINE WITH THE THEME OF THE EVENING.
'CAUSE THAT'S THE, ABOUT ANY PROM OR EVENT, IT'S LIKE THE THEME OF THE EVENING
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AND THEN ATTACHED TO IT WHO YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE IS.SO THERE'S AN EVENING FOR, UM, SUNS OR, YOU KNOW, YOUNG MEN.
AND I THINK WHAT WE HAVE IS SOMETHING LIKE, UM,
BUT THE TARGET AUDIENCE IS, IS GETTING THOSE MALE BOYS, THEIR BESTIES, IDENTIFYING, YOU KNOW, CITIZENS, BOYS, AND THEIR BESTIES.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THE SAY THAT IT'S WHAT KIND OF ADULT COMES WITH IT.
YOU COULD HAVE THAT IN SMALL PRINT.
BOY SAFARI NIGHT ACCOMPANIED BY YOUR FAVORITE ADULT.
I, I'LL JUST BRIEFLY SAY, LIKE YOU SAID THERE WAS PUSHBACK BECAUSE IT SAYS BOYS NIGHT OUT, BECAUSE THAT HAS A TONE, RIGHT.
OF, YOU KNOW, LIKE, BOYS DOING BAD THINGS GOING ON, WILD BOOTS, CHASES, THERE'S EVEN SOME CASES COULD BE A SEXUAL RIGHT.
SO THAT MAY BE WHY THE PUSHBACK ON THAT PARTICULAR KIND.
I'M REALLY WONDERING IF STAN HAS ANY IDEAS.
YEAH, I, YOU KNOW, I'M THINKING LIKE YOU COULD, I LIKE THE IDEA OF, UH, THE THEME, BUT THEN WHAT YOU CAN DO IS TIE THE THEME TO SOMETHING THAT MAKES SENSE, LIKE LITTLE PRINCESS, LITTLE PRINCESSES AND THEIR PRINCE OR PRINCESSES AND THEIR KING, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, I LIKE THAT TOO.
OR BOY SAFARI HUNT WITH THEIR QUEEN, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
YOU COULD, UH, YOU KNOW, SO YOU COULD ALWAYS TRY TO BE REALLY CREATIVE AND TRY TO COME UP WITH A THEME THAT DENOTES A YOUNG PERSON WITH A OLDER PERSON CAN BE CONSTRUED AS GAY.
OH, SO YOU PEOPLE ARE THAT'S TRUE.
PEOPLE ALWAYS GONNA FIND A WAY, ANYONE BE GENERAL FOR, TO BE OFFENDED BY SOMETHING.
UM, BUT I REALLY, I REALLY DO THINK, AND, AND YOU, THAT'S A VALID POINT.
SO PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS GONNA FIND A REASON TO BE OFFENDED, AND THEY'RE GONNA MAKE UP A REASON TO THAT'S RIGHT.
BUT I DO THINK IF YOU'RE STICKING WITH THE THEME, THAT'S ALSO MAKES IT MORE INCLUSIVE.
BECAUSE SOME CHILDREN THAT IDENTIFY ONE WAY OR ANOTHER OR NEITHER ARE GONNA BE DRAWN TO A SAFARI MORE THAN TO A ROLLER DERBY OR A DISCO, OR I KNOW, I LOVE ROLLER DERBY.
SO THAT DOES MAKE IT INCLUSIVE.
YOU CAN SAY THAT THE TARGET IS FOR, YOU KNOW, MALE IDENTIFYING CHILDREN TO ATTEND WITH THEIR FAVORITE ADULT, BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A PART OF THE TITLE.
BUT THEN THEY GET TO PICK WHICH THEME DRAWS THEM THE MOST.
AND THAT'S BEING VERY INCLUSIVE AND VERY OPEN TO EVERYBODY.
SO LEADING WITH TWO VERY DIFFERENT THEMES AND TRY TO STAY AWAY FROM TRADITIONALLY GENDERED THEMES IS IMPORTANT.
UM, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE ELEMENTS OF IT CAN'T BE THERE FOR THE CHILDREN THAT ENJOY THAT, BECAUSE, LET'S BE HONEST, LIKE I HAVE A LITTLE GIRL, SHE'S VERY DRAWN TO THINGS THAT ARE ALL ABOUT SPORTS.
SHE ALSO LOVES UNICORNS AND THINGS THAT ARE PINK.
SO SHE WOULD BE HAPPY GOING TO EITHER A BASEBALL THEMED EVENT OR SOFTBALL EVENT.
SHE'D BE JUST AS HAPPY GOING TO A UNICORN AT PRINCESS EVENT.
SHE WOULD WANNA GO TO BOTH, WHICH I'M TALKING ABOUT THIS ONE RIGHT HERE.
SO KEEPING A STEAM FOCUS, I WOULD SAY, WELL, BABY, YOU CAN GO TO ONE OR THE OTHER.
SHE'D PROBABLY DRIVE YOU TO BOTH, OR HER DAD IS TO BOTH.
BUT I THINK IT'S A GOOD IDEA TO KEEP IT, UM, LEAD LEADING WITH THE THEME.
OH, I WAS JUST, I WAS JUST SMILING BECAUSE I'M, YEAH.
WHAT I START GOOGLING, LIKE ALTERNATIVE NAMES
DUDES AND GNARLING AND LADIES AND LADS.
MY GUY AND I, PEOPLE COME UP WITH ALL THESE CRAZY IDEAS.
YOU CAN ALWAYS GOOGLE IT AND COME UP WITH LIKE 30 OR 40 DIFFERENT IDEAS.
DO YOU HAVE ANY ENOUGH OR ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I'VE BEEN HELPFUL.
YOU HAVE? SO, UM, WHAT I'M HEARING, AND I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE I'M HEARING CORRECTLY, IS YOU JUST RECOMMEND THAT WE STICK WITH A THEME AND DON'T EVEN NECESSARILY MARKET IT TOWARDS ONE.
IF YOU'RE NOT, IF YOU, IF IT'S ONLY FOR BOYS, YOU'VE GOTTA SPECIFICALLY STATE IT'S FOR BOYS.
BOYS, RIGHT OUT, BOYS, SAFARI GIRLS, WHATEVER.
WHAT ARE THEY DOING? UH, IT, IT IS A DANCE AND THAT, YEAH.
SO THIS IS WHERE I'M COMING FROM.
IT'S A DANCE, BUT WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF SEPARATING IT? YOU MEAN RATHER THAN HAVING, WELL, INSTEAD OF, I MEAN, JUST CALL IT LIKE A SAFARI NIGHT.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE? WHAT IS THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF SEPARATING JUST FOR BOYS? UM, YOU KNOW WHAT THAT TRADITION YEAH.
SO, YOU KNOW WHAT, AND THIS IS, THIS IS WHERE I'M GETTING, THIS IS WHERE I'M GETTING AT.
JUST KEEP IT GENERAL BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I HAVE ONE EVENT.
BECAUSE WHAT I'M THINKING ABOUT WHEN I HEAR, I'M THINKING ABOUT,
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UH, OUR, OUR, OUR YOUNGER, OUR YOUNGER CITIZENS WHO BELIEVE IN PRONOUNS.SO, YOU KNOW, MY WHOLE, MY WHOLE THING IS JUST KEEP IT GENERAL, KEEP IT A SAFARI NIGHT AND JUST, YOU WANT TO MAKE IT MORE INCLUSIVE, JUST, YOU KNOW, DROP THE GENDER.
SO ARE YOU RECOMMENDING, OKAY, SO WE HAD TWO EVENTS MM-HMM
ONE'S IN MAY, ONE'S IN JUNE, FALL, ONE IN THE SPRING HAS STUFF, EVENTS, BUT JUST NOT TWO DIFFERENT, I THINK IT MAKES IT, IT MAKES IT MORE INCLUSIVE IF YOU JUST CALL IT WHAT IT IS.
JUST MAKE KIDS EVENT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, JUST KIND OF GETTING AWAY FROM THAT TRADITIONAL, BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, WHEN YOU START, LIKE WHEN YOU SAY BOYS OR GIRLS, YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE ELEMENTARY STUDENTS THAT KNOW THEIR PRONOUNS.
IT'S JUST, KIDS JUST CALL IT WHAT IT IS.
SO JUST HELP, YOU KNOW, JUST TO MAKE IT MORE INCLUSIVE.
AND YOU GIVE PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACTUALLY ATTEND BOTH INSTEAD OF EXACTLY.
AND, AND YOU CAN HAVE THEM SIX MONTHS AND YOU CAN HAVE 'EM SIX MONTHS APART, YOU KNOW, SO YOU HAVE ONE IN THE FALL AND ONE THE SPRING, WHICH MEANS PEOPLE HAVE TWO, TWO SEPARATE TIMES DURING THE YEAR TO ENJOY SOMETHING LIKE THIS INSTEAD OF WAITING A WHOLE YEAR.
ONE THING I, ONE THING I DO WANNA ADD TO THAT CONVERSATION, AND I'M GONNA END UP HAVING TO LEAVE EARLY, AND I JUST GOT MY DAUGHTER'S BACK EARLY FROM TURN.
ONE THING I DID WANNA ADD ON IS THAT ONE OF THE REASONS I THINK WHY CITIES STARTED HAVING THINGS THAT ARE TARGETED SPECIFICALLY FOR BOYS OR FOR GIRLS IS BECAUSE OF THE LOW PARTICIPATION.
OF VOICE AND PARENTS BRINGING THEIR BOYS TO EVENTS LIKE THAT.
SO UNLESS IT'S LIKE A MONSTER TRUCK OR ROBOTICS EVENT THAT PARENTS STEER THEIR BOYS INTO, IT'S THE TRUTH IS THAT IF YOU HAVE A NIGHT OUT OR AN EVENT, OR A FORMAL, A LOT OF TIMES THE BOYS ARE GONNA MISS OUT BECAUSE THE PARENTS TRADITIONALLY DON'T THINK THAT'S FOR THEIR BOYS.
THEY DON'T NECESSARILY INCLUDE, YOU KNOW, THEY JUST HAVE THESE, WHAT I CONSIDER OUTDATED IDEAS ABOUT WHAT'S BOYS AND GIRLS THINGS.
SO I THINK THAT'S WHY CITIES, MUNICIPALITIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS HAVE TRIED TO TARGET SPECIFICALLY BOYS SO THAT MAKE SURE THAT THEY, THAT THEY SHOW UP.
BUT I THINK WE CAN ACHIEVE THAT BY HAVING THINGS LIKE SAFARI IS EXCELLENT, RIGHT? YEAH.
TECHNOLOGY NIGHT WHERE THEY COME AND RACE THEIR ROBOTS IS ANOTHER COOL THING.
BUT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO HAVE BOTH BECAUSE THERE'S EQUAL PARTS PARTICIPATION NOW IN OUR, SEEING OUR, EVEN OUR SCHOOL ROBOTICS CLUBS, BOYS AND GIRLS PARTICIPATING TOGETHER.
SO SEEING WITH THOSE THEMES IS A REALLY GOOD IDEA.
AND HAVING, STAYING AWAY FROM THE GENDER PREFERENCE IN THE TARGETING OF THE, THE MARK OF THE EVENT IS DEFINITELY PRETTY SMART.
JUST THINK LIKE, OKAY, THIS IS GONNA BE SAFARI AND THIS ONE'S GOING TO BE, UM, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, DANCING OR PAIRS AND THEY'RE, THEY'LL SORT THEMSELVES OUT.
LET THEM DECIDE WHAT THEY WANNA GO TO, WHAT THEY WE'RE DRAWN TO.
IF THIS IS A SAFARI YOU, IF YOU DEFINITELY GONNA HAVE A LOUD HIPPO THERE.
I MEAN, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A BIG YEAH.
IT, IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S A CONSENSUS THAT THERE'S A, YEAH, THERE'S REALLY NOT AN ISSUE.
DOES ANYONE HAVE QUESTIONS OR ANYTHING ELSE? OR ARE YOU CLEAR ON THE FEEDBACK? BASICALLY THAT'S, I MEAN, WHAT I'M HEARING IS DON'T HAVE ANY OF LIKE, BASICALLY HAVE TWO EVENTS AND DON'T REALLY A TARGET ANY SPECIFIC GENDER FOR THOSE EVENTS.
JUST HAVE A THEMED EVENT LIKE SAFARI NIGHT PERFECT.
AND MAKE IT THE BEST SAFARI EVER.
AND I TALK TO SOME PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM, SO I MAY DO THAT.
WHAT KIND OF ARTIST? I NEED SOMEONE THAT CAN DRAW ME AN AMAZING MURAL OF A SPAR.
WHAT ABOUT THE MURALIST? WHO'D WORKED WITH THE CITY? WHO HIS WE.
WHY NOT? WHY NOT? I DO HAVE HIS CONTACT.
I WOULD JUST USE AI AND HAVE IT DO RIGHT.
WE DO A SAFARI WELL, I NEED IT ON A WINDOW.
ANYWAY, I'M SORRY I CAUGHT EARLY, BUT I'LL SEND MY FEEDBACK ON THE, THERE OTHER THINGS THAT YOU NEED? YEAH, THE, YOU SAID YOU WANTED TO, THAT IT WAS THE TWO EVENTS.
AND SO, UM, THOSE TWO EVENTS, LIKE Y'ALL PRETTY MUCH WRAPPED IT UP.
NOW I DON'T EVEN HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE NEXT ONE.
WE CAN JUST PUSH THAT TO THE FALL OR SOMETHING.
AND I THINK TOO, HAVING THE DIFFERENT, LIKE ONE NOW AND ONE IN THE FALL TOO ALSO PROVIDES A MORE, YOU KNOW, SCHEDULES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
WILL YOU SPONSORING YOUR AREA? AREA SPONSORING THE JUNETEENTH? WE ARE, BUT I SAW THE MURALS PRETTY, YES.
HAVE Y'ALL SEEN THAT ONE? THE TOTALLY, BUT I'LL JUST TELL YOU REAL QUICK.
IT'S, UH, I WANNA SAY BOOTS AND BUCKLES.
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REMEMBERING OUR TRAILBLAZERS.LISTEN, I SAW THE, YEAH, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHERE I SAW IT, BUT I SAW, I THOUGHT, THIS LOOKS SO NICE.
I APPRECIATE ALL THE FEEDBACK.
NOW WHAT'S, IT'S MAY 17TH, WHICH IS A SATURDAY NIGHT, AND IT'S GONNA BE HERE AT CITY POOL.
SO WE'RE GONNA USE THE LOBBY SPACE, HOPEFULLY THE UPSTAIRS BALCONY AS PART OF ONE OF OUR, UH, PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES.
WE DON'T HAVE A LIVE
IS THAT 7:00 PM SIX TO EIGHT? NO, NO, I'M WRONG.
WELL, WE HAVEN'T ACTUALLY PUBLISHED IT, PUBLICIZED ANYTHING YET.
SO RIGHT NOW IT'S SCHEDULED FOR FOUR TO SIX.
IN HOPES THAT, UH, WE'VE GOT SOME COMMUNITY PARTNERS THAT ARE GONNA GIVE OUT SOME, UH, STUFF TO GO EAT AT SOME RESTAURANTS.
SO ANYWAY, WE'RE HOPING THAT THAT ALL WORKS OUT.
WELL, I APPRECIATE ALL OF THE INPUT.
LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY, NOW WE'LL GO BACK TO ITEM 7.1, DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE DEIB STRATEGIC EXECUTION PLAN WITH STANDS THAT YES.
AND IN FACT, I'LL BE THINKING ABOUT YOU AND YOU'RE ALL HAVING SAFARI NIGHT ON MAY 17TH.
I'LL BE IN NAMIA, BELIEVE IT OR NOT.
SO WHAT I'LL DO IS I'LL GO AHEAD AND SHARE MY SCREEN AND TAKE YOU THROUGH THIS.
AND THEN ALSO LATER ON, I KNOW THAT, UH, CHRISTIE, OR, YOU KNOW, CAN BE, UH, UH, SEND THIS OUT, UH, TO YOU.
UH, AND BASICALLY THE IMPORTANT, ONE OF THE THINGS I WANNA SHARE REALLY EARLY ON IS THAT, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR, YOU KNOW, THAT BASICALLY YOU'RE OVERSEEING AND YOU'RE HELPING MANAGE THE OVERALL STRATEGIC EXECUTION PLAN.
AND THERE'S GONNA BE SOME ITEMS WHERE, UH, WE REALLY DO WANT SOMEONE ON THE COMMISSION TO TAKE AN ACTIVE ROLE, UH, TO ASSIST IN BEING, UH, A LIAISON FOR THAT ACTIVITY OR HELPING LEAD IT.
UH, YOU KNOW, THIS, WE KNOW, WE KNOW IT.
WE DON'T WANT, THIS IS NOT GONNA GROW INTO A FULL-TIME JOB FOR EVERYBODY.
UH, BUT IF EVERY COMMISSION MEMBER LIKE STEPS UP TO TAKE LIKE ONE AREA, YOU KNOW, IT'LL JUST, YOU KNOW, BE SOMETHING THAT EACH PERSON CAN KIND OF DO AN ACTIVITY IN ADDITION TO COMING TO THE MONTHLY MEETINGS.
SO YOU'RE GONNA SEE A COUPLE PIECES THAT ARE HIGHLIGHTED YELLOW, WHERE WE SPECIFICALLY WILL NEED A MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION TO RAISE THEIR HAND AND SAY, OKAY, I'LL TAKE THAT.
UH, SO GOING, THE FIRST WORKING ITEM IS ESTABLISHING AN OVERALL SUSTAINABLE STRUCTURE.
SO THIS WORK WILL CONTINUE, YOU KNOW, DO WE HAVE PROCESSES AND BODIES IN PLACE? SO THIS WORK CONTINUES.
AND OF COURSE THE FIRST ONE IS ESTABLISHING AN EXECUTION PLAN, WHICH WE'RE NOW WORKING ON.
AND TARGET IS TO GET THIS ADAPTED BY LATE JUNE.
UH, 1.2 IS ACTUALLY FORMING, UH, FOCUSED WORKING GROUPS THAT WILL BASICALLY FOCUS AROUND A, AN ASPECT OF DIVERSITY.
UH, AND THAT THEY WILL HAVE PEOPLE THAT WILL, YOU KNOW, THEY'LL HAVE THEIR OWN CHAIRPERSON WHO WILL NOT BE A DIB COMMISSION MEMBER.
UH, BUT WE DO NEED A LIAISON WHO CAN ASSIST WITH EACH ONE.
THE THREE GROUPS WILL BE VETERANS, SMALL BUSINESS AND SENIOR CITIZENS.
AND, UH, DEFINING THE GROUP I'M WORKING WITH CORINA, UH, AND WE ALREADY HAVE OUR FIRST DRAFT OF THAT OUT.
UH, AND, UH, THAT WE SHOULD GET THAT, YOU KNOW, DEFINITELY DONE BY EARLY MAY.
UH, AND, AND ALSO BY MAY, IT'D BE GREAT IF WE HAVE THREE OF YOU STAND UP AND SAY, OKAY, I'LL BE THE INTERFACE TO THE VETERANS, TO THE SMALL BUSINESS AND TO THE SENIOR CITIZEN, A GROUP.
AND ALSO WITHIN THE DOCUMENT THAT I'M WORKING WITH CORINA, WE HAVE A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE LIAISON SHOULD BE DOING.
AND IN FACT, I JUST WANNA TAKE A QUICK DETOUR, UH, AND GO THERE SO THAT YOU CAN SEE THAT BECOMING A LIAISON, ONE OF THESE GROUPS IS NOT REALLY OVER, IS NOT GONNA BE TOO OVERWHELMING.
SO BASICALLY THE INTERFACE, THE INTERFACE OR THE LIAISON WOULD ACT AS AN INTERFACE BETWEEN THE DIB COMMISSION AND THE WORKING GROUP.
THEY COULD ASSIST IN RECRUITING MEMBERS FOR THE WORKING GROUP, ATTEND SOME OF THE GROUP MEETINGS
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TO PROVIDE INSIGHTS AND ADVICE.COMMISSION INTERFACE HAS TO ATTEND EVERY WORKING GROUP MEETING OR ACTIVITY.
YOU MIGHT ATTEND 40% OF THE ACTIVITIES, AND YOU REPRESENT AND COMMUNICATE THE NEEDS, DESIRES, AND RECOMMENDATION OF THE WORKING GROUP, UH, AT DEIB COMMISSION MEETINGS, AND THEN DISCUSSIONS WITH THE CITY COUNCIL AND STAFF.
SO YOU CAN BE LIKE A CHAMPION, YOU KNOW, FOR THAT WORKING GROUP, UH, IN LARGER DISCUSSIONS.
SO THAT'S WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY WE WANT AN INTERFACE OR A LIAISON FOR EACH OF THESE THREE GROUPS.
WHO ARE THE, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE RUNNING THE, WHO ARE THE COMMISSION PEOPLE THAT YOU WERE, YOU KNOW, SUPPORTING? WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? ACTUALLY THAT, I'LL GO BACK TO THAT AND ANSWER THAT.
UH, GO BACK AND SHARE, UH, CITY HOUSING.
BASICALLY THAT'LL BE A GROUP OF BETWEEN FIVE TO NINE CITIZENS WHO VOLUNTEER AND SIGN UP TO BE IN THOSE WORKING GROUPS.
SO THE BA THE IDEA HERE IS IF YOU LOOK AT ONE TWO C HERE AT THE BOTTOM, UH, YOU KNOW, ANNOUNCE THE GROUPS THAT SOLICIT VOLUNTEERS AND FOLLOW UP WITH PREVIOUSLY INTERESTED PEOPLE.
SO THIS WOULD HAPPEN IN JULY AND AUGUST.
WE WOULD ANNOUNCE, HEY, WE'RE FORMING THESE INITIAL THREE WORKING GROUPS.
THIS IS WHAT WORKING GROUPS ARE GOING TO DO.
THIS IS THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF WORKING GROUPS.
UH, THEY'RE OPEN TO PEOPLE WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THESE CONSTITUENCIES AS WELL AS ALLIES WHO WANT TO WORK ON THESE AREAS.
AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, UH, OTHER JACQUELINE KNOWS OTHER PEOPLE IN THE PAST WHO'VE ALREADY KIND OF SAID, HEY, IF YOU EVER DO SUCH AND SUCH, I'D BE INTERESTED IN WORKING ON IT.
THERE'S PROBABLY SOME PEOPLE ALREADY READING THE WINGS.
WHO WOULD WANNA BE ON ONE OF THESE THREE WORKING GROUPS? WOULD A CITY COUNCIL MEMBER BE ON THESE GROUPS AT ALL? UH, I MEAN, THEY COULD, THEY CONCEIVABLY THEY COULD VOLUNTEER TO BE ON IT IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO.
I WOULD ASSUME THEY PROBABLY ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH STUFF THAT THEY'RE WORKING ON.
WOULD IT BE OPEN TO ALL CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS OF HU SO CONCEIVABLY, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT, WE DON'T EXPECT IT TO HAPPEN.
AND ALSO, UH, A DIP COMMISSION MEMBER DOESN'T NEED TO BE A MEMBER.
WE HOPE, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE HOPE HOPING THAT THESE WILL ALL BE NEW.
FRESH PEOPLE HAVEN'T BEEN ENGAGED YET.
SO ARE WE ASKING, UM, OURSELVES WHAT WE'D LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN? UH, WHAT, WHAT WE WOULD LIKE BY MAY IS, UH, YOU KNOW, CORINA CAN CIRCULATE, YOU KNOW, THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE WORKING GROUPS.
AND I ALREADY READ TO YOU THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE INTERFACES.
WE'D WANT THREE PEOPLE ON THIS GROUP AND THIS GROUP.
WE'D WANT THREE OF YOU TO RAISE YOUR HAND AND SAY, I WOULD VOLUNTEER TO BE THE DEIB COMMISSION INTERFACE TO THE VETERANS GROUP.
I VOLUNTEER TO BE THE INTERFACE TO THE SMALL BUSINESS GROUP, AND I VOLUNTEER TO BE THE INTERFACE INTERFACE TO THE SENIOR CITIZEN GROUP.
YOU WANT THAT NOW? IF PEOPLE WERE WILLING TO VOLUNTEER NOW, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
I'LL VOLUNTEER FOR SENIOR CITY.
YOU GO GET, YEAH, I'LL VOLUNTEER FOR SMALL BUSINESS.
GOOD SPOONS MAY BE INTERESTED IN THE VETERAN.
CAN I CAN
BUT THAT HAPPENED IN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER.
AND BASICALLY THE TRAINING WOULD BE GOING OVER THEIR ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES, REVIEWING THE, UH, DEIB STRATEGIC PLAN WITH THEM.
UH, AND SOME OVERALL, YOU KNOW, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION 1 0 1 STUFF, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY TRAINING TO GET ON BOARD AND EXCITED ABOUT THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING.
UH, AND THEN THEY GO FROM THERE THAT IT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, ESTABLISHING THESE THREE WORKING GROUPS AND ALSO ANNOUNCE SOME, YOU KNOW, IT'LL BE KNOWN THAT, HEY, IN THE FUTURE THERE COULD BE ADDITIONAL WORKING GROUPS, YOU KNOW, BASED UPON PASSIVE AND DEMAND.
AND, UH, ALREADY LIKE ABOUT A THREE, TWO AND A HALF PAGE
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WRITEUP.I'M WORKING WITH CORINA THAT GIVES A LOT OF DETAILS ON WHAT THESE WORKING GROUPS DO, THEIR ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR BEING IN IT.
THEN WE WANNA HAVE AT LEAST 1D IB COMMISSION MEMBER ATTEND EVERY CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
AND LAST YEAR IT WAS 92% OF CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS HAD AT LEAST, UH, ONE COMMISSION MEMBER.
UH, AND WE WANNA HOPEFULLY MAYBE INCREASE THAT TO 95% NEXT YEAR, UH, TO HAVE A-D-E-I-B FORUM MEET TWICE A YEAR, YEAR, THAT WOULD BE A LARGER GROUP THAT INCLUDES KEY STAFF LEADERS FROM THE CITY COUNCIL INTERFACES AND THE DIB AND THE, UH, THE DEIB COMMISSION.
AND THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE WANNA START IN JANUARY WITH THE CHAIR, UH, AND VICE CHAIR WORKING ON THAT TOGETHER.
ANOTHER THING TO MAKE SURE THAT THE STRUCTURE IS IN PLACE IS TO MAKE, IS TO BE ABLE TO SUBMIT A BUDGET REQUEST.
AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE'LL GO THROUGH IN TERMS OF BY JULY GOING THROUGH THIS PLAN AND THEN SAYING, OKAY, WHAT THINGS IN THIS PLAN ARE GONNA COST MONEY THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PUT IT IN THE BUDGET REQUEST.
AND OF COURSE, THE THING WE CAN MEASURE IS, DID WE DO IT, DID WE SUBMIT A BUDGET REQUEST? AND WHAT PERCENT OF THAT BUDGET WAS GRANTED? DAN? YES.
REALLY QUICKLY, IF, IF POSSIBLE, UM, HAVE THE BUDGET REQUEST, I THINK BY JUNE, JULY IS KIND OF LIKE THE, THE LAST OH, OKAY.
UM, LIKE IF ANY ADDITIONAL THINGS NEED TO BE ADDED, BUT I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT BY JUNE THE COMMISSION HAS SOMETHING PREPARED IN JULY.
SO JACQUELINE, IF YOU CAN LIKE, SEND ME A NOTE OF THE THREE PEOPLE, LIKE IN A COUPLE DAYS, SEND ME A NOTE OF THREE PEOPLE WHO SIGNED UP FOR THIS, AND THEN I WILL MAKE THAT ADDITION HERE.
SO AS WE GO THROUGH THIS, IF THERE'S ANY SUGGESTIONS ON REVISIONS, LET ME KNOW AND I'LL, AND I'LL, I'LL DO THAT THIS WEEK.
AND YOU WANNA CHANGE LATE SEPTEMBER PROBABLY TO EARLY AUGUST.
'CAUSE BY LATE SEPTEMBER THE BUDGET'S ALREADY SET.
SO YOU WANNA DO THAT EARLY, LIKE AT LEAST THE FIRST WEEK OF AUGUST.
IF YOU BUDGET THAT, WE WANT TO SUBMIT IT IN JUNE, BUT THEN WHEN DO WE KNOW THAT HOW MUCH WAS GIVEN TO US? YOU WON'T UNTIL OCTOBER ONE.
THAT'S, THAT'S ONE OF THE METRICS EVERYTHING WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS, YOU KNOW, CAN WE HAVE A RE WE HAVE A METRIC FOR IT.
AND OF COURSE A GREAT METRIC IS WHAT PERCENT OF OUR BUDGET WAS GRANTED.
UH, THERE'S ALWAYS A WORKING SESSION WITH THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, THAT HAPPENS.
AND IS THE DIB CHAIR, YOU KNOW, COORDINATES THAT AND IT'S, UH, THE, IN JULY, IF WE'RE GONNA HAVE, IF WE'RE GONNA DO A BUDGET SUBMIT SUBMISSION EARLIER, LIKE IN JUNE, SHOULDN'T WE HAVE THE WORKING SESSION BEFORE THAT SO WE CAN GET THE CITY COUNCIL'S PERSPECTIVE ON THE OVERALL PLAN? OR DO YOU THINK WE'RE GONNA BE OKAY? I WOULD ASK DAN, WHAT DO YOU THINK? DID WE LOSE, ARE YOU STILL THERE, DAN? OH, HE IS.
UM, I MEAN, I LIKE THIS, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS STARTED TALKING ABOUT THESE GROUPS, YOU KNOW, LAST YEAR, AND IT'S GOOD TO SEE THAT YOU HAVE WORKED OUT HOW TO, YOU KNOW, START TURNING THEM INTO REALITY.
UM, YOU KNOW, A GOOD THING IT'S GONNA BRING MORE PEOPLE IN, HOPEFULLY.
THE, THE QUESTION THAT, THE QUESTION SPECIFICALLY FOR YOU, DAN, OKAY, IS IF, IF WE, IF WE'RE ONE, IF WE ARE EXPECTED TO SUBMIT A BUDGET REQUEST TOWARD THE END OF JUNE, UH, DO WE NEED TO HAVE THIS WORKING SESSION WITH THE CITY COUNCIL TO REVIEW THE OVERALL PLAN BEFORE THAT? BECAUSE IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO REQUEST A BUDGET IN JUNE AND THEN SHOW YOU THE PLAN IN JULY.
IF YOU LOOK AT 1.5 AND 1.6, UM, I THINK THERE'S STILL TIME THERE BECAUSE JUNE IS LIKE AN EARLY VIEW OF BUDGET, AND WE DON'T ACTUALLY MAKE THE DEC WE DON'T ACTUALLY MAKE THE DECISION UNTIL, UM, AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER.
THEN IF SO, SUBMIT AN INITIAL BUDGET IN JUNE, THEN WE CAN SHOW THE
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PLAN AND SESSION IN JULY, WHICH IS TALKING ABOUT THE BUDGET, AND THEN MAYBE MAKE ADJUSTMENTS AFTER THAT.THAT'S A GOOD TIME TO, TO LET US KNOW WHAT, WHAT IT IS THAT YOU'RE REQUESTING AND WHY.
UH, AND THEN HAVE A PUBLIC PRESENTATION OF A DEI PLAN AND STATUS AT A CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
UH, YOU KNOW, AND WE CAN LET IT NOT A PEOPLE WANNA CITY COUNCIL MEETING AND HEAR IT, IT'S OPEN TO THE PUBLIC THAT THAT WOULD HAPPEN IN AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER, WHICH IS AFTER THE, THE MEETING WITH THE COUNCIL.
UH, AND THEN WE HAVE ONE THAT'S, HEY, THAT'S GONNA BE TBD CONSIDER OR RECOMMEND ADDITIONAL FOCUS WORKING GROUPS, LIKE AFTER THE FIRST THREE WORKING GROUPS START WORKING AND THEY'RE CREATING RESULTS AND WE HEAR PEOPLE EXCITED ABOUT THEM, YOU KNOW, AT SOME POINT IN TIME, MAYBE LIKE A YEAR LATER, UH, RECOMMEND OR THINK ABOUT DO WE WANNA DO SOME OTHER, YOU KNOW, ADDITIONAL WORKING GROUPS.
AND THEN, UH, AN ANNUAL REPORT FROM THE DIB COMMISSION, UH, AFTER REVIEWING THE PROGRESS OF THE THREE INITIAL GROUPS, UH, EARLY IN 2026.
SO THIS IS ALL ABOUT STRUCTURE, YOU KNOW, STRUCTURE, UH, TO KEEP THIS WORK GOING.
AND SO WE TALKED ABOUT THIS BULLET.
WE GOT A DIB COMMISSION MEMBER TO SIGN UP TO BE THE LIAISON.
UH, WE NEED TO REALLY THINK ABOUT HOW WE WANNA INCORPORATE THE YOUTH FOCUS GROUP.
WE COULD ALWAYS ENCOURAGE YOUTH TO GET INVOLVED IN SOME INITIAL WORKING GROUPS.
UH, AND, UH, WE SHOULD ALSO SET AN INTERNAL METRIC IN TERMS OF COMMISSION MEMBERS ATTENDING MEETINGS SO IT DOESN'T FALL ON THE CHAIR.
THE ONE THAT GOES TO ALMOST ALL OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS.
I THINK IT'D BE GREAT IF, YOU KNOW, MAYBE, UH, EACH OF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND AT LEAST THREE CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS A YEAR.
SO YOU GET THAT EXPOSURE TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND YOU KIND OF SEE HOW THE MEETINGS GO AND THEY GET TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
BUT THAT WON'T BE ONE THAT WE PUBLISH.
THAT'LL BE LIKE AN INTERNAL METRIC AND TARGET.
SO ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS ABOUT A PRIORITY AREA, ONE WHICH DEALS WITH, UH, TO CONTINUED ONGOING STRUCTURE OF THIS WORK.
AND THE NEXT THING IS THE PRIORITY AREA TWO IS NOW ASSURING FULL PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WITH DEIB WORK.
UH, AND, YOU KNOW, UH, ONE IS TO HOLD SIX LISTENING POSTS WITH CURRENT, FORMALLY OR INFORMALLY.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO POWER LET PEOPLE IN THE MEETING.
ANYWAY, UH, SO, UH, AND KARINA, WERE YOU, WERE YOU HERE? WERE YOU, WERE YOU JUST JOINING NOW OR WERE YOU HERE AND DISAPPEARED? I WAS, UH, I WAS THERE IN PERSON AND THEN I HAD AN EMERGENCY PICKUP AND I MADE IT BACK HOME.
SO I'M ABLE TO JOIN NOW FROM HOME.
WE HAVE PEOPLE, WE HAVE PEOPLE, WE HAVE PEOPLE SIGNED UP FOR THE FREE WORKING GROUP TO LIAISONS.
AND REALLY QUICK CORINA, JUST SO YOU KNOW, UM, YOU, UH, IF THERE ARE ANY VOTES OR ANYTHING, UM, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT YOUR VOTE WOULD COUNT TOWARD ANYTHING BECAUSE YOU'RE JOINING FROM THERE.
BUT INFORMATIONAL WISE AND DISCUSSION WISE, YOU'RE GOOD.
SO WE HAVE, WE DO HAVE PERSONS THAT, UM, SIGNED UP.
WHAT CAN I WELL, WE HAVE, WE HAVE TWO GROUPS.
UM, ONE, THE SMALL BUSINESS IS ERIC AND COREY, AND THEN THE SENIOR CITIZENS IS SUZANNE.
AND I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA REACH OUT TO TARA ABOUT THE VETERANS GROUP.
SO, UH, PART OF OUR TASK, I GUESS WOULD BE GOING OUT AND, AND RECRUITING.
I'VE GOT SEVERAL PEOPLE IN MIND ALREADY.
AND I KNOW, I KNOW CORINA, YOU HAD, UM, SOME PEOPLE IN MIND FOR THE VETERANS GROUP.
I KNOW, AND I HAVE SOME OTHER PEOPLE IN MIND FOR OTHER GROUPS TOO, THAT SPOKE.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHEN THIS IS ANNOUNCED, IT'S NOT ONLY, HEY, WAITING FOR PEOPLE TO RAISE THEIR HAND AND VOLUNTEER, BUT AFTER IT'S ANNOUNCED, YOU CAN ACTUALLY CALL THOSE PEOPLE AND SAY, HEY, I KNOW YOU'RE INTERESTED IN THIS.
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE ONE OF THE INITIAL MEMBERS OF THIS WORKING GROUP? RIGHT.
SO, UH, THE IDEA WOULD BE HAVING, YOU KNOW, SIX LISTENING POSTS WITH, YOU KNOW, OTHER GROUPS THAT ARE NOT, YOU KNOW, THREE WORKING GROUPS.
THEY HAVE A VOICE AND TO DO, YOU KNOW, SIX OF THOSE, SEPTEMBER OF 2025 AND AUGUST OF 2026, AND HOPEFULLY THERE'D BE, YOU KNOW, TWO COMMISSION MEMBERS ATTENDING EACH LISTENING POST SO THAT YOU COULD HEAR WHAT PEOPLE HAVE TO, TO SAY.
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UH, WE COULD, WE NEED TO LEVERAGE AND UTILIZE THE NEXT GENERAL CITIZEN SURVEY AND THAT WE, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF REVIEW AND PROVIDE INPUT ON THE QUESTIONS, REALIZING THAT, YOU KNOW, IF WE MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO CHANGE THE QUESTIONS RIGHT NOW FOR THIS YEAR, BUT WE CAN PROVIDE SOME INPUT AND THAT CAN MAYBE BE USED FOR FUTURE SURVEY.UH, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN KIND OF GET THE WORD OUT, UH, HELP, YOU KNOW, GET THE WORD OUT ACROSS THE CITY SO THAT MORE PEOPLE TAKE THE SURVEY.
BECAUSE IF WE CAN INCREASE, YOU KNOW, PARTICIPATION, WE'RE GONNA HAVE BETTER DATA.
AND THEN WE, THE DIB COMMISSION CAN REVIEW THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY TO SAY, ARE THERE ANY INTERESTING THINGS IN HERE THAT REVOLVE AROUND DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION AND BELONGING, BELONGING THAT WE NEED TO TAKE SOME ACTION ON? SO KINDA LOOKING AT THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY THROUGH A-D-E-I-B LENS, UH, 2.3 IS HAVING A WRITTEN COMM, UH, COMMITTED TO DEIB COMMUNICATIONS PLAN.
AND JACQUELINE, UH, IS JACQUELINE IS WORKING WITH THE CITY COMM, UH, THE COMMUNICATIONS LEADER, UH, WITH THE GOAL OF HAVING THAT DONE BY OCTOBER AND THEN CONTINUE WITH, UH, DEIB UPDATES ON THE WEBSITE.
YOU KNOW, IN OTHER WORDS, WE HAVE A COMMUNICATIONS PLAN AND THEN WE SHOULD BE REVIEWING, YOU KNOW, TWICE A YEAR, UH, DID WE ACTUALLY MEET THE GOALS OF THE COMMUNICATIONS PLAN? DID WE ACHIEVE IT AND REPORT THAT PROGRESS? UH, TWO, UH, NOTES ABOUT THIS PRIORITY AREA IS THAT WHEN WE HAVE THE LISTENING POSTS, WE REALLY DO NEED TO BE VERY DEFINITIVE, UH, IN TERMS OF JUST DON'T LIKE THE MEETING AND SAY, OKAY, Y'ALL, WHAT DO YOU WANT? YOU KNOW, OR HEY, Y'ALL GIVE US INPUT, BUT BE MORE FOCUSED.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, UH, WHAT DOES, WHAT DOES YOUR, UH, GROUP NEED.